Notre Dame London: Fischer Hall Library

Patent law and theory :

Patent law and theory : a handbook of contemporary research / edited by Toshiko Takenaka. - Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2008. - xii, 790 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Research handbooks in intellectual property .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On the economics of patent law and policy / Patents and policies for innovations and entrepreneurship / History of the patent system / A spanner in the works : or the spanner that works? Patents and the intellectual property system / International treaties and patent law harmonization : today and beyond / Examination procedure at the European Patent Office / Appeal procedure before the European Patent Office / Patent Office oppositions and patent invalidation in court : complements or substitutes? / Trilateral cooperation : mutual exploitation of search and examination results among patent offices with a view to establishing a system of rationalized work-sharing / 'Lost in translation' : the legal impact of patent translation errors on claim scope / Patenting software-related inventions in Europe / Utility and industrial applicability / The novelty and priority provision under the United States first-to-file principle : a comparative law perspective / Back to the Graham factors : nonobviousness after KSR v. Teleflex / Extent of patent protection in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan : examination through the concept of 'person having ordinary skill in the art of the invention' / Direct and indirect patent infringement / The scope of patent protection for spare parts and its extension through other tools of intellectual property / The exhaustion of patent owners' rights in the European Community / Enabling research or unfair competition? De jure and de facto research use exceptions in major technology countries / Compulsory licensing under TRIPS and the Supreme Court of the United States' decision in eBay v. MercExchange / Adequate compensation for patent infringement damages : a comparative study of damage measurements in Japan and the United States / Resolving patent disputes in a global economy / Challenges to the sui generis regime of pharmaceutical patents / Current controversies concerning patent rights and public health in a world of international norms / Biotechnology patent pools and standards setting / Patenting industry standards / F. Scott Kieff -- Ove Granstrand -- John N. Adams -- Jeremy Phillips -- Tomoko Miyamoto -- Peter Watchorn -- Andrea Veronese -- Jay P. Kesan -- Shinjiro Ono -- Donald S. Chisum and Stacey J. Farmer -- Stefan Schohe, Christian Appelt and Heinz Goddar -- Christopher Wadlow -- Toshiko Takenaka -- Elizabeth A. Richardson -- Toshiko Takenaka -- Alison Firth -- Horst-Peter Götting and Sven Hetmank -- Thomas Hays -- Sean O'Connor -- Christopher A. Cotropia -- Toshiko Takenaka -- Rochelle C. Dreyfuss -- John R. Thomas -- Cynthia M. Ho -- Jorge A. Goldstein -- Vincent F. Chiappetta.

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Patent laws and legislation.

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